The geometry of systems of third-order differential equations induced by second-order regular Lagrangians

DOI10.1007/S00009-009-0020-9MaRDI QIDQ844003zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Ioan Bucataru, Radu Miron

Publication date 18 January 2010

Published in Mediterranean Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0705.3689

zbMATH Keywords

covariant derivativesemispraynonlinear connectionPoincaré-Cartan two-form

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Differential geometric methods (tensors, connections, symplectic, Poisson, contact, Riemannian, nonholonomic, etc.) for problems in mechanics (70G45) Lagrange's equations (70H03) Higher-order theories for problems in Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics (70H50)

Abstract: A dynamical system on the total space of the fibre bundle of second order accelerations, $T^{2}M$, is defined as a third order vector field $S$ on $T^{2}M$, called semispray, which is mapped by the second order tangent structure into one of the Liouville vector field. For a regular Lagrangian of second order we prove that this semispray is uniquely determined by two associated Cartan-Poincar'e one-forms. To study the geometry of this semispray we construct a nonlinear connection, which is a Lagrangian subbundle for the presymplectic structure. Using this semispray and the associated nonlinear connection we define covariant derivatives of first and second order. With respect to this, the second order dynamical derivative of the Lagrangian metric tensor vanishes.

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